Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765

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George Dance office drawings: the drawings of George Dance the Elder and George Dance the Younger
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  - Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765. Preliminary designs, contract and working drawings (9)

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Reference number

SM volume 19/13

Purpose

Church of All Hallows, London Wall, City of London, 1765

Aspect

[1] Preliminary design: rough longitudinal section

Scale

not to scale

Inscribed

Some dimensions given and dimensional calculations

Signed and dated

1765

Medium and dimensions

Pen and pencil on laid paper (220 x 490)

Hand

Dance

Watermark

cartouche with bend surmounted by fleur-de-lis

Notes

The length is 88 feet and the height at the east end 34 feet 3 inches. The three centre bays have semicircular-headed windows 10 feet wide, in front of which is a gallery. This early design is related to another in the RIBA Drawings Collection (SC 66/4(1)) that shows more fully Dance's first ambitious scheme which was subsequently much simplified. (See Kalman pp.69-71) for a description of the early scheme and his Dance catalogue entry in volume C-F of the Catalogue of the Drawings Collection of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1972).

Verso
Elevation of semicircular-headed window, elevations and perspective of timber roof structures including a king-post truss and profiles of four medieval? carved heads Inscribed: some dimensions given, calculations and (cut) Dance / (cut) body Pencil, pen

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Drawing

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Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural, design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings in Soane’s own hand or those of the pupils in his office, covering his early work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.

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